Arab World - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Arab World was 13.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16.14 in 1999 and a minimum value of 11.25 in 2008.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1978 14.09
1979 14.62
1980 15.89
1981 15.80
1982 14.15
1983 14.95
1992 15.39
1993 14.98
1999 16.14
2000 15.21
2001 14.24
2002 13.91
2003 13.55
2004 12.76
2005 11.89
2006 11.35
2007 11.95
2008 11.25
2009 11.81
2010 12.27
2011 13.26
2012 12.08
2013 11.39
2014 11.84
2015 12.13
2016 13.08
2017 13.73
2018 12.57
2019 11.82
2020 13.37

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports